DIY Wrist Bling
June 19th, 2008 @ 1:39 pm by Mrs. Plumeria
My wedding bracelet was an early DIY project that I didn’t actually make specifically to wear on the big day. I just happened to have a bunch of leftover beads and decided to do something with them, and the resulting piece of jewelry was too sparkly to use for any sort of everyday occasion. It so happened that it ended up matching my dress perfectly, so I went ahead and used it…
Something Lost
June 12th, 2008 @ 9:28 am by Miss Tiramisu
Something blue. Check. Shoes and garter.
Something old. Check. My Nana is graciously letting me take a piece of lace off of her wedding gown to wrap around my bouquet.
Something new. Check. Take your pick… dress, bracelet, veil, shoes…
Something borrowed. Check. Make that something lost! My friend L. called me this week to tell me that the perfect and beautiful chandelier earrings that she wore on her wedding day- and generously offered to let me wear on mine- have gone missing! Somewhere in Pennsylvania is a box with her wedding shoes, headpiece, and earrings, and no one can locate it.
Sniff, sniff… here they are:
Is Less More?
June 9th, 2008 @ 2:48 pm by Miss Gingerbread
In addition to scoring the shirts, shoes and ties for Miss GB 2.0 on our trip to Socal for our shower, I also found my wedding jewelry. Actually, I should say it was Miss GB 2.0 who found it. I’d been to several department stores without her and had no luck. Then when we were together in Nordstrom Rack, Miss GB 2.0 spotted these babies.
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Pretty Shiny Things
May 17th, 2008 @ 4:29 pm by Mrs. Hummingbird
From the beginning, I knew I wanted a special necklace to go with my dress. For months I’d looked at pieces at boutiques and bridal shows, but somehow everything seemed way too “blingy” for our afternoon garden wedding.
So, like any logical bride, I turned to the no fail place for jewelery - Etsy. With over 100,000 sellers, if you can’t find it there, it doesn’t exist.
My criteria was simple:
1) It had to be silver.
2) It had to have a splash of colour.
3) It had to have a kind of nature/botanical look to it.
I was hunting on everybody’s favourite craft site for maybe a day when I stumbled across Meg Leigh’s shop and was sold. Simple and beautifully designed pieces, they were exactly what I was looking for . . . which actually made it really hard for me to decide what to order. So many awesome choices!
Something Old or Borrowed — I Can’t Make Up My Mind!
May 16th, 2008 @ 9:00 am by Miss Cookie
To help satisfy the age old ”Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue” tradition, I visited my grandmother, who has an extensive jewelry collection, to see what I could “borrow.” During our search, we found these beautiful old earrings.
Something Old and Blue
May 14th, 2008 @ 11:25 am by Miss Gingerbread
On Monday I posted about someone else’s grandparents and on Tuesday I posted about mine, but wait, there’s more. My grandparent-themed posts aren’t over yet.
One of my favourite pieces of jewelery is an aquamarine ring from my Swedish grandmother on my father’s side. I only met my farmor (that’s “father’s mother” in Swedish) a few times and I was too young to remember her. From what my mom tells me, she gave me a toy truck once. Then when she died many years ago, she left me a few pieces of jewelery in her will.
Aquamarine is my birthstone. It’s definitely something old and something blue. Maybe I’ll wear this for my wedding.
Accessorize Me, Part Two
May 13th, 2008 @ 12:45 pm by Miss Cupcake
Last weekend when Mr. Cupcake and I were visiting Bro & SIL Cupcake, we found ties for the guys and earrings for me at the mother of all Macy’s. The day after we returned from our New York visit, I had an appointment to try on my recently-arrived veil with my dress at The Wedding Touch, so it was the perfect opportunity to try the earrings on with the whole ensemble. I apologize that I don’t have any photos of me with the earrings on, but needless to say, they just didn’t do it for me. I’m trying to go for more of a relaxed look and the earrings just looked too…. structured, or something.
As always, my style-hero SIL Cupcake came to the rescue. Once she sent me the link to Lunessa.com, I fell in love with these stunning earrings:
